[Austin Willard Wright]

Panned out nicely? More than 100K troops overextended and tied down in a futile nation building operation, Shi'tes (who want domination) headling for a showdown with Kurds (who want autonomy or independence), 83 billion and more spending on nation building, enactment of Shari'a by the new interim authority, Americans killed at average of more than one per day? Don't think so.

[Joe_October]

You've just describe the average American city.

You forgot to mention that the sky was falling as well.

[tbpiper]

Don't think so.

That's your problem, you don't think.

As I stated before, the objective was to topple Saddam. If you'd keep up with current events, you'd know the goon is gone.

tied down in a futile nation building operation

Typical 'are we there yet?' childhood inpatients. We haven't been there a year yet and you bellyache because it's not a Utopia.

83 billion and more spending on nation building

Get your facts straight, Willard. Most of that goes to the military. About 17 billion goes to rebuilding two countries. Boston, by the way, spent over 15 billion just to dig a damn tunnel. That's one project, in one city, in one state. I'd say the former is a better deal.